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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 19, 2015 13:00:14 GMT -5
I'm glad there's no other song whose intro sounds just like the one to Hope You Get Lonely Tonight...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 14:08:30 GMT -5
This is the second greatest spin gainer on Mediabase this week, which is very rare for a #1 song. Actually, the top three greatest spin gainers are all in the top 10. ("Take Your Time" is #1, "Ain't Worth the Whiskey" is #2, and "Homegrown" is #3.)
I think there are three reasons there are such huge conversions going on right before these songs reach #1. First, we've had three songs in a row ("Make Me Wanna," "Lonely Tonight," and "Just Gettin' Started") all push for a second week at the top and only inch down to #2 after their weeks at #1, Second, Broken Bow Music Group hogged two undeserved top 10 spots for way too long by pushing both "Like a Cowboy" and "Take It on Back" far past their natural peaks, so once those started falling there was more ground for the new top 10 entries to cover. The third reason is because the CS, ZBB, and SH songs are all way out-selling "Homegrown Honey," "Lonely Eyes," and "Drinking Class," which have been slow burners that have gotten lukewarm reception from radio. If the CS, ZBB, and SH songs weren't selling as strongly I think they would have climbed more steadily through the top 10 and gone up after songs from Darius Rucker, Chris Young, and Lee Brice and therefore they wouldn't be having such quick top 10 runs and big conversions.
I do think "Ain't Worth the Whiskey" will be the song to break the monotonous string of single-week #1's. Cole is 500 spins and 4 million audience ahead of "Homegrown" on Mediabase even though he's gained 800 spins and 5.5 million audience over the past week, yet this song still has another 300 spins and 2 million audience worth of room to grow before reaching the peak numbers "Mean to Me" reached on Mediabase last week. Obviously, this is a way bigger hit than Eldredge's, so unless radio programmers see this at #1 tomorrow and using the "different turn at #1 each week" mindset decide to take it out of rotation, I don't see why Cole can't bullet for another week and stay ahead of ZBB.
This has only had four weeks in the top 10 on Mediabase (7-7-3-1) and five on Billboard (10-7-4-3-1). Most songs these days tend to spend eight to ten weeks in the top 10. The only top 10 runs to #1 this quick I can remember over the past few years are "Stay" (four weeks to #1 and four weeks at #1), "My Eyes" (five weeks to #1 and one week at #1, could have easily gotten two weeks at #1 if WMN decided to keep pushing), and "Leave the Night On" (five weeks to #1 on Mediabase, but seven on Billboard). So it'd just feel like a bit of a hollow victory for this to zoom through the top 10 so quickly and then end up peaking this week with only one week at #1 and some really low, uncompetitive peak numbers. However, even if this does fall from #1 next week while songs from Darius Rucker, Chris Young, and Lee Brice hang around for more weeks and reach higher peak numbers, it's still clear which song will get more recurrent airplay and leave the artist with more momentum for future singles.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2015 5:39:45 GMT -5
Damn, it looks like WMN pulled this after all. I should have known as they absolutely never get competitive with their #1's unless Broken Bow holds the next song in line for #1. I can appreciate their strategy of looking at the bigger picture and not getting hung up on chart runs so much, as opposed to BBR which ridiculously fights to make moderate hits like "When She Says Baby" or "Yeah" three-week #1's at the expense of other hits, but in this case I think two weeks at #1 would have really been deserved since this is so new to the top 10 and has had a steady chart run with great sales and research. Now, as Cole's "reward" for having the bigger hit than Darius Rucker or Chris Young, he gets fewer weeks in heavy rotation and possibly even lower peak numbers than those two. (Although we will have to adjust Chris Young's peak numbers down just a bit since he will collect countdown spins Cole Swindell didn't get this weekend.) Country airplay charts are such a joke.
Does anyone who has been watching the charts longer than me know when the last time a #1 song has had four weeks climbing in the top 10 on Mediabase and then only gotten one week at the top before going back down?
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 25, 2015 12:49:14 GMT -5
^ Didn't "Give It All We Got Tonight" do something insane like 9-9-6-1-10 on MB?
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 25, 2015 13:27:57 GMT -5
^ Didn't "Give It All We Got Tonight" do something insane like 9-9-6-1-10 on MB? "Give It All We Got Tonight's" top 10 run on MB went, 9-9-8-8-6-1-10-20.
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 25, 2015 13:32:50 GMT -5
^ Didn't "Give It All We Got Tonight" do something insane like 9-9-6-1-10 on MB? "Give It All We Got Tonight's" top 10 run on MB went, 9-9-8-8-6-1-10-20. Too bad that was not the Billboard run. Otherwise, George Strait would have had his 45th #1 in tow and chart toppers during the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 25, 2015 13:38:49 GMT -5
^ I've seen some runs in the early-mid 90s that went like that on BB. "My Second Home" by Tracy Lawrence went 9-7-1-6, and "Someone Else's Star" by Bryan White went 8-4-1-4-11, then fell out from #11 somehow. (Back then, #30 was usually where #1's fell out, and it wasn't rare for a #1 to fall out of the 40 entirely before its 20 weeks were up.)
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 25, 2015 13:55:49 GMT -5
^ I've seen some runs in the early-mid 90s that went like that on BB. "My Second Home" by Tracy Lawrence went 9-7-1-6, and "Someone Else's Star" by Bryan White went 8-4-1-4-11, then fell out from #11 somehow. (Back then, #30 was usually where #1's fell out, and it wasn't rare for a #1 to fall out of the 40 entirely before its 20 weeks were up.) Yes. the 90's were notorious for climbs on both Billboard and MB of that ilk. There were some strong stays in the 2000's like "As Good As I Once Was'" run on R&R, (8-7-6-3-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-3).
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 25, 2015 16:04:35 GMT -5
^ Even by 90's standards, those runs struck me as abnormal. Still not as strange as debuting at #1, falling a lot, then rebounding to #2…
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 16:56:34 GMT -5
The Highway was playing "Let Me See Ya Girl" earlier today, which is probably my favorite off the album.
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Post by dm2081 on Mar 26, 2015 16:59:43 GMT -5
The Highway was playing "Let Me See Ya Girl" earlier today, which is probably my favorite off the album. If that's the case, then that's most likely the 4th single. I love that song too, it's probably one of the catchiest country songs I've ever heard. I imagine most on here won't be fans though, especially with the genre bending line "Bring the beat back...".
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Post by dm2081 on Apr 1, 2015 22:04:42 GMT -5
Did he perform this song recently somewhere? It's suddenly up to #24 on iTunes, and I don't think it was ever that high before.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 22:07:46 GMT -5
It's been discounted to 69 cents on iTunes and Cole may have received some extra exposure from the iHeartRadio awards.
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Post by dm2081 on Apr 1, 2015 22:12:32 GMT -5
It's been discounted to 69 cents on iTunes and Cole may have received some extra exposure from the iHeartRadio awards. I always forget to check the discount for some reason. It's amazing that something $.60 cheaper will cause such a rush to buy something lol
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